Easily SSH into an instance and forward two ports to allow access on your local machine

forward_two_ports.sh

#!/bin/bash
# Ask the user for their name
echo 'Hello, I will help you connect to your EC2 instance.
You will need 3 pieces of information:
Username
Host Address
Path to key file\n\n'

read -n 1 -s -r -p "[Press any key to continue]"

echo '\n\n'
echo 'Username (OS specific. eg Ubuntu:ubuntu AmazonLinux:ec2-user)'
read username

echo 'Host-name (address eg. ec2-35-182-252-128.ca-central-1.compute.amazonaws.com)'
read host

echo 'Key Location (path eg. ~/Keys/your-key.pem)'
read key 

echo 'Enter port 1 (from/to)'
read port1

echo 'Enter port 2 (from/to)'
read port2

chmod 400 $key

# echo 'ssh -i' $key '-N -L' $port':'$host':'$port $username@$host
ssh -X -i $key -N -L $port1:$host:$port1 $username@$host -v &
ssh -X -i $key -N -L $port2:$host:$port2 $username@$host -v